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What Are The Biggest Priorities For 2022?
The electoral priorities for 2022 are obvious, but what about the priorities for the legislative sessions in that year?
Half-Measures Won’t Stop Financial Deplatforming
If we want to stop financial deplatforming, we need more than sub-pinprick consequences.
Supreme Court Will Not Save Second Amendment, New Legislative Attacks
Think Supreme Court wins will end the threat of anti-Second Amendment legislation? Even if bans are off the table, here’s what anti-Second Amendment extremists could pass…
Below the Radar: Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act of 2021
Your local Federal Firearms Licensee has made a living helping people exercise their Second Amendment rights, and anti-Second Amendment extremists in Congress want them out of business.
Below The Radar: Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriation Bills
Appropriations bills are often opportunities for our enemies to attack our rights – but can also be used to protect them.
Below The Radar: The PISTOL Act
While the Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act would be ideal to pass, it doesn’t hurt for Second Amendment supporters to have a backup plan.
Below The Radar Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2021
Bonnie Watson Coleman has proposed Second Amendment suppression legislation.
Below The Radar Protecting the Right To Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2021
Recent history means it’s time for Second Amendment supporters to update some legislation passed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Below the Radar: Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act
The Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act is worthy of backing from Second Amendment supporters.
Below the Radar: The HEAR Act Rears Its Ugly Head Again
The reintroduction of the Help Empower Americans to Respond Act offers both strategic benefits and a strategic conundrum to Second Amendment supporters.
Below The Radar: A Virginia Plan That Deserves Rejection
Senator Tim Kaine’s “Virginia Plan” is just more of the same gun control – but with a pernicious undertone.
Important Knife Reform Bottled up by Texas Senate State Affairs Committee (HB 956)
The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee is about to kill a popular bi-partisan knife law reform bill. The bill is very important, but time is limited. Take Action.
Taking Advantage of a Shift in the Landscape, Caniglia v. Strom
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Caniglia v. Strom could be a boon to Second Amendment supporters concerned about so-called “red flag” laws.
Below The Radar: S 1373 and HR 2890
Two bills introduced by Second Amendment champions could give Second Amendment supporters an edge on the political battlefield.
Below The Radar: NICS Denial Notification Act of 2021
Some bills are easily seen as bad, others are easily recognizable as advances in protecting the Second Amendment. But come legislative items don’t lend themselves to an easy call.
Bullet Points on California’s New Proposed Ammunition Legislation
A gun without ammunition is just an oddly shaped paperweight, and laws that make buying that ammunition more difficult are nothing but an attempt to chip away at gun rights generally.
Ohio Self Defense Reform Bill Passes House Committee
Currently, Ohio appears to be the only state where the burden of proof in a self-defense case rests with the defender.
Grace Periods, Guns & Gangs and the Liberal Government’s Agenda
The first announcement was the unexpected gazetting of Section 14 of the CSFLA, which implemented a 6-month grace period for expired firearms licences.
ISRA Veto Session Alert – Illinois Gun Dealer Licensing
Your phone call is needed. SB1657 is headed for a showdown in the Illinois House of Representatives during veto session this week.
The “Bump Stock” Overreach
The media frenzy over the mass murder in Las Vegas has died down faster than any other such story I have seen in the last two decades.
MCRGO Pending Legislation Update, Part Two
MCRGO E’News is reviewing several pending bills in the Michigan Legislature that MCRGO anticipates may move in the weeks and months ahead.
Sportsmen’s Caucus Members Gather to Discuss Policy Priorities
A bipartisan gathering of state legislators from across the country attended the 14th Annual NASC Sportsman-Legislator Summit.
ISRA Action Alert: File Three Witness Slips NOW for Tuesday
These witness slips are needed now in response to three new anti-gun bills introduced into the Illinois House of Representatives for the Fall Veto Session.
ISRA Thursday Bulletin for October 19, 2017
With the events in Las Vegas, we are going to see lots of anti-gun bills like HB4107, HB4112, HB4117 and of course, SB1657, the Dealer Licensing bill.
How to Win the Gun Control Debate in Favor of Guns
If you can frame the gun control debate as questions, the other just might ask you for the answer. And that makes the debate a whole different ball game.
Republican Bill to Ban Bump Fire Stocks and NRA Support Review of Laws
The National Rifle Association has announced that it supports the review of bump fire stocks to see if they are in accordance with current federal law..
New Hampshire: Be Ready, Anti-gun Bills are Coming
Rep. Delmar Burridge (D), wants to prohibit the open carry of firearms. Rep. Janice Schmidt (D) wants to take away the Second Amendment rights of tenants.
FPC Call for Full Repeal of “Crime for Being Charged with a Crime” Laws
FPX is once more calling for an immediate repeal of dangerously unconstitutional laws passed by the California Legislature in Assembly Bill 103 (AB 103).
Bill Banning Carrying on School Grounds Heads to California Governor
Assembly Bill 424, which attempts to subvert authority of education officials, passed the California State Assembly and on it’s way to the governor’s desk.